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esrblog and I just got back from TCEP 16.

TCEP is a small gaming convention run by old friends of ours for ...all of their friends. For 16 years, it's been held every Labor Day weekend. They make arrangements with a small hotel for function space, and for three days, their friends from near and far gather to play live-action roleplaying games and other kinds of games. It's a great chance to see people we don't get to see often, and to play games we don't get to play at our local gaming store on Friday nights.

We learned six new games at TCEP: Civilization II: The Card Game (a freebie packaged with a software combo that includes all of the Sid Meier Civilization games); Galaxy Trucker (the game of assembling space freighters out of used plumbing and cruising the galaxy for loads to deliver!); Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries (a 2-3 player version of the well-known game played on a map of Scandinavia); SmallWorld (conquest in a mystery meat fantasy world); and Qwirkle Cubes (like Scrabble but with colored symbols).

It was a great, relaxing weekend. Going to work tomorrow will feel like such a drag by comparison.